If that is truly what he said...I read that as his uncle was part of an American force which liberated the concentration camp.
I'm sure he will issue a clarifying statement and that will be the end of it. This is nothing compared to the sniper fire incident because that is on video!
Originally Posted by FloggingSully  What he said, according to the Fox News article:
"I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps and the story in our family is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months, right. Now obviously something had really affected him deeply but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain"
The article claims that there are two problems with this statement:
1)"Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Army"
2)"and Obama’s American mother was an only child."
But in the Obama quote he never claims that his uncle liberated Auschwitz or that the uncle in question was his mother's brother.
The article also finishes with a quote from an outraged RNC spokesperson (who's job it is to get outraged and try to make a mountain out of a mole-hill) but doesn't have a counter from anyone at the DNC. Doesn't seem fair or balanced to me. |